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Eikon – You Found Me

Genre: Worship, Experimental, Electronica, Garage

Eikon is the new London based electro-gospel music duo of Dave Hendra andDave Pilcher. The Daves met at St Mary’s Bryanston Sqaure, and joinedmusical forces during their time studying theology together in 2012, fusingtheir passion for electronic music and worshipping God. St Mary’s has beengiving them space to explore, which has now led to several alternativeworship nights trialling out Eikon’s different sounds.

Pilcher, previously a music graduate, and Hendra an arts graduate, began theproject with the aim of creating music to enable other electro-enthusiasts toworship and engage with God. Furthermore, the focus was also to createmusic that would not only appeal to other Christians, but also a secularaudience. Eikon’s sound is a mash-up of modern electronica, house musicand chilled-out ambient. The result is passionate and melancholic worship,blended with some dance-floor-filler moments.

Pilcher, has had many electronic releases as ‘the Naïve Machine’, and bringshis wealth of production experience to Eikon as he composes, produces andarranges the material. Hendra also composes for Eikon, writes the lyrics andsings all the vocals. His interest in lyrical composition stems from his love ofpoetry, which he started writing on the London underground to act as adistraction from London’s rat-race living. However, Hendra also takesinspiration from the Psalms and writings of historic theologians, identifyingwith their attempts to engage with God through the ages. Hendra furtherutilises his Nord Lead and sparse Telecaster harmonies to complimentPilcher’s warm analogue synths. In combination, all of this creates the uniqueEikon soundscape.